Refinery Process Operator Jobs in Bayway, NJ (NOW HIRING)

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What to Expect
As an Operations Supervisor supporting the Wastewater Treatment team, you will play a critical role in keeping operations safe, reliable, and efficient. In this position, you'll be at the center of daily production activities, guiding a skilled team and collaborating across departments to ensure smooth, optimized performance. This is an opportunity to combine hands-on leadership with problem-solving in a dynamic environment where every decision impacts quality, safety, and success.
At Phillips 66, Lead Forward is our leadership approach. It defines how leaders show up, make decisions, and support their teams while delivering results in a complex, fast-changing environment. Leaders at this level focus on setting clear direction, building trust, and helping their teams succeed. You're expected to act with integrity, make timely and thoughtful decisions, and take ownership of outcomes while supporting collaboration across teams. This role is about leading people well, even when priorities change or the path forward isn't always clear.
What You'll Do

• Lead and coordinate a team of shift operators to deliver safe, efficient, and high-quality production across multiple shifts.
• Guide your team in executing daily operational plans, monitoring performance indicators, and ensuring compliance with safety and environmental standards.
• Develop work schedules, allocate resources, and oversee equipment preparation for maintenance while fostering accountability and continuous improvement.
• Mentor team members, support their development, and provide clear direction to achieve departmental goals within established procedures and budgets.
• Partner with other shift leads, engineering, and maintenance teams to optimize production and resolve operational challenges.
• Manage administrative duties such as payroll, incident reporting, and labor contract administration, ensuring adherence to company policies and regulatory requirements.
• Communicate expectations, deliver feedback, and coordinate planned activities to maintain product quality and drive results.
• Respond to emergencies, support a positive team environment, and contribute to the ongoing success of the organization.

What You'll Bring - Required

• Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
• High School Diploma or equivalent
• 3 or more years of operations experience in the Energy industry
• Possess a valid driver's license
• Willing and able to obtain a Transportation Work Identification Credential (TWIC) card
• Willing and able, with or without reasonable accommodation, to comply with the following:
  • Travel up to 5%
  • Operate company a vehicle on site premises and/or public roads up to 25%
  • Work extended hours, which may include evenings, weekends, holidays, and on-call duties 24/7/365
  • Transport articles up to 50 pounds
  • Climb ladders and stairs up to 200 feet
  • Work safely near large, hot, high-speed machines, around chemicals and hydrocarbons under high pressure and heat, and in harsh weather conditions.
  • Wear fire retardant clothing and personal protective equipment.
  • Maintain face daily for proper respirator/face mask seal. (some examples include being free of facial hair and/or clean shaven)

What Makes You Stand Out - Preferred

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
• 3 or more years of supervisory experience
• Knowledge of Wastewater Treatment
• 5 or more years of experience in the oil & gas industry, specifically refining
• 3 or more years of experience in coordinating or managing a major unit turnaround
• 10 or more years of refinery operations experience
• Knowledge of safe work practices

Compensation Range
This position has a base salary range of $141,300 - $172,700.
At Phillips 66, we are committed to pay transparency and competitive, equitable compensation. Each role is assigned a salary grade with a defined pay range, benchmarked against industry peers. Where a candidate offer falls within the posted range depends on the candidate's experience, skills, and alignment with the role's requirements. Offers are made to ensure internal equity and market competitiveness. Our compensation programs are designed to reward performance and support career growth.
The Bayway Refinery is located on the New York Harbor in Linden, New Jersey. Bayway's facilities include crude distilling, naphtha reforming, fluid catalytic cracking, solvent deasphalting, hydrodesulfurization and alkylation units. The complex also includes a polypropylene plant with the capacity to produce up to 775 million pounds per year. The refinery processes mainly light and medium, low-sulfur crude oil. Foreign crude oil is supplied to the refinery by tanker, and domestic crude oil is supplied through a combination of rail and marine transportation. The refinery produces a high percentage of transportation fuels, as well as petrochemical feedstocks, residual fuel oil and home heating oil. Refined products are distributed to East Coast customers by pipeline, barge, rail car and truck.
Total Rewards
At Phillips 66, providing access to high quality programs and care for you and your family is important to us. Maintaining a culture of well-being - physical, emotional, social, and financial - is essential for a high-performing organization. When we are at our best, we are poised to deliver exceptional results - personally and professionally. Benefits for certain eligible, full-time employees include:

• Annual Variable Cash Incentive Program (VCIP) bonus
• 8% 401k company match
• Cash Balance Account pension
• Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits with an annual company contribution to a Health Savings Account for employees on HDHP
• Total well-being programs and incentives, including Employee Assistance Plan, well-being reimbursement, and backup family care services

Learn more about Phillips 66 Total Rewards .
Phillips 66 has more than 140 years of experience in providing the energy that enables people to dream bigger and go farther, faster. We are committed to improving lives, and that is our promise to our employees and our communities. We are sustained by the backgrounds and experiences of our diverse teams, which reflect who we are, the environment we create and how we work together. We have been recognized by the Human Rights Campaign, U.S. Department of Labor and the Military Times for our continued commitment to inclusive practices and policies in the hiring and retention of those in the LGBTQ+ community and military veterans. Our company is built on values of safety, honor and commitment. We call our cultural mindset Our Energy in Action, which we define through four simple, intuitive behaviors: We work for the greater good, cultivate an environment of trust, seek different perspectives and pursue excellence.
Learn more about Phillips 66 and how we are working to meet the world's energy needs today and tomorrow, by visiting phillips66.com.
To be considered
In order to be considered for this position you must complete the entire application process, which includes answering all prescreening questions and providing your eSignature on or before the requisition closing date of 08/06/2026.
Candidates for regular U.S. positions must be a U.S. citizen or national, or an alien admitted as permanent resident, refugee, asylee or temporary resident under 8 U.S.C. 1160(a) or 1255(a)(1). Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.
Phillips 66 is an Equal Opportunity Employer